Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire

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Gordon Ramsay. Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Contents

FOREWORD

EARLY DAYS

FIRST STEP ON THE LADDER

ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD

A SCOTTISH FAILURE

CLARIDGE’S

FOREIGN FIELDS

WE WRITE TO TELL YOU HOW DISAPPOINTED WE WERE

THE CONNAUGHT

I WORE THE WHITES

A CHANGE OF DIRECTION

FOR SALE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

THERE ARE GIRLS IN MY SOUP

I BUY A HOUSE

PUBLIC FLOGGINGS

THE FEE EARNERS

NEW YORK

A HELPING HAND

HOLLYWOOD CALLS

A CHANGE IN SPENDING HABITS

Index

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Gordon Ramsay’s

1. Early Days

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The situation would not last.

The concrete shell is always going to haunt me. No one really knows what makes a restaurant successful. There are only a few real variables: the food, the location, the design, the price, the staff, the ambience and the clientele. But every time you think it can’t be too difficult to crack the code, up pops a restaurant that should fail because the food is overpriced and atrocious, the location is in the middle of a railway arch, the staff are arrogant arseholes or the clientele is fickle – and they have to eat in a concrete shell. We all know of examples. The amazing and galling thing is that sometimes they don’t fail.

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